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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-25

AT Aix-la Chapele. Friday last, five
thousand persons went in procession to a neigh
boring shrine and prayed for the Crown Prince
Two lighted candles, each weighing fifty
pounds (denotine the Princes age), were each
borne by eight girls dressed in white. Perhaps
that sort OF treatment may save him, but some
will think il a great waste of
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-25

about the city, was before the Police Court the
other Cay, charged, under the name of aaron
Burr" with being habtual drunkard. He
promised to leave the city for Virginia, and the
Judge took his personal bonds. He probably
represents of 'the first families of Virginia,
sab" run to seed. Present conditions attracta
good many Of Thorn to Washington
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-04-24
A MORMON THEATRE.
Salt Lake City Drannatics in the Time G

Salt Lake City Dram atics in the Time of
Brigham Young Funny Incidents.
Virginia city CYeu) Cor. Philadelphia Press.
In the early days of the mining cities and
of Mormonisln it was curious to visit the
theatre in Salt Lake City and see old Brig
ham Young, his wives and his numerous
progeny march in and out. No company
was ever allowed to play there unless one of
Brigham's spies was stationed at a peep
hole back of the scenery to note if any of
his wives or daughters winled, or made any
sign TO the players, while from the front his
priests and elders watched. Money was
scarce commodity with these people, and
corn, grain and even vegetables were ex-
changed for admission tickets. Brigham
always exacted of each company perform
ing there so many seats for his family, the
women all on one side and the priests, elders
and councils on the opposite
Once a company of actors, composed of
Shelby, Atkinson and a number of others
from st. Louis, strayed to Salt Lake City to
play that much-abused "Uncle Toms
Cabin" and the last remark of old Ben
Dollar to the boys as they left st. Louis was
Look out for the poly-gals. If Brigham
gets into your flirting you will walk home,
for he will stop the shown They opened at
the Salt Lake City Theatre to an immense
ent, but unfortunately one of the younger
actors, Sam Hooley, standing at the door as
the performance was over, attempted to
pass note to one of Brigham's daughters.
He was detected, and given twelve hours to
leave town
The company, however, were allowed to
play their three nights engagement, but no
Mormon dared to come, as the edict had
gone forth, and the company were obliged
to get the agent of Wells Fargo & Co S Ex-
press to liquidate part of their bills, for
warding their baggage with C. O. d. tag
for the amount incurred, to be paid at Den
yer, Col, their next stopping place.
In little adobe cabin just out from Win
nemucca, and near what was formerly
Camp Mcclellan, then under command Of
Lieut.. Karge, now Professor of Languages
at Princeton College, there is an old ma
hogany table On it, cut in deep with a
knife, is this inscription: 81 w. Booth,
May, 1850" The old man who keeps the
house, and moved from Virginia City there
in 1864, says: Il bought Their table from one
on EN- spouters what used ter play in 'Ginny
City" Is it a relic of j. Wilkes Booth
Then he can be added to the list of players
who gathered in the shekels from the Pa
cific coast people, and who, passing away or
rising to a notch Of fame on the stick of
time, are remembered as the early actors of
the frontier
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-04-24
BENJAMIN
AND
DEBORAH FRANKLIN.

Benjamin Franklin, after many years
spent abroad enlightening men, gaining
fresh wisdom and laurels came home to live
in quiet retirement with his son-in-law, Col
Richard Bache, at the old mansion, which
stood in a large park on Market street, near
Fourth, this city. Shortly after that he
wrote q friend:
Il am now in the bosom of my family and
find our four little prattlers, who cling about
the knees Of their grandpapa, afford me
great pleasure. | am surrounded by my
friends and have good daughter and SON
in-law to take care of me, | have got into
my niche, a very good house, which | built
twenty-four years ago and out of which
have been kept ever since by employments.
Franklin had small printing press set up
on one of the upper floors of the house, with
which he amused himself many an hour by
his experiments But so busy life was
but destined to be prolonged in quietness.
He had been settled bat short time
when his life light went out on Saturday,
April II, 1890, when he was nearly rs
Three days later, now nearly a hundred
years ago, his remains were conveyed to the
old Friends Burying Ground and placed be-
side those of his wife and the thin stone slab
laid over them
There was mourning throughout this and
other lands. Twenty thousand people
crowded the streets around that old burying
ground on the day OF the funeral, and as the
simple cortege passed over the few squares
between the house and the grove bells
throughout the city tolled and minute guns
doomed mournfully. Clergymen of the city
of all denominations, the Supreme Exc
cutive Council of the State, Of which
Franklin had been president; the State
Assembly, Judges of the Supreme Court,
members of the bar, the officials of the city
printers and their workmen, the Philosophi-
cal Society, the College of Physicians, the
students and faculty of the PHILADELPHIA
College and many civic organizations at
tended the funeral. Tho pall-bearers were
Gov. Thos. Miffiin, Chief Justice Mexican.
Thomas Willing, President Of the Bank of
North America; Mayor Samuel Powell,
William Bingham and David Rittenhouse.
Following the death and buria! of Franklin
came honors and eulogiums from every
where In Congress, Madison offered a
resolution which said:
Benjamin Franklin was a citizen whose
native genius was not more an ornament to
human nature than his various exertions Of
1t have been precious TO science
Friends of Liberty in France erected a
mausoleum, but Franklin unhonored grave
rests amid the turmoil and confusion Of
great, busy city.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-04-24
FRANKLINs UNHoNORED GRAVE.
Unnoticed and Neglected, 1t Lies in the
Busiest Section Of Philadelphia.
From the Neto York World.

GAi1Stl|SO tbllQ NeSleCLGAi ~ 11IO'o - WIG
Busiest Section Of Philadelphia.
From the Neto York World
The bare, blank walls Of a very old bury
ing ground are frowned down upon by the
towering structures of manufacture and
business that surround and hem them in in
ono Of the busiest parts of Philadelphia. In
side the burying ground walls are trees
planted by men who died from old age
years ago. Birds come and rear their wide
mouthed families in this cool oasis Ill the
great desert of tbrobbing city streets. One
old man, bent and wrinkled takes an oc-
caslonaI walk over the scarcely dtsceInlble,
grass-grown paths, and his are the only feet
that tread this silent city OF the dead.
In the Arch street wall very near the cor
ner an opening has been made. The bricks
have been taken away for space of per-
haps dozen feet. Through an iron fence
which covers this opening one can get
glimpse of the peaceful grounds within.
That graveyard was made long years ago
and the noisy city has grown all about 1t,
crowding it and josting it, but never en-
croaching beyond its walls. From sun-upto
midnight there is a constant hurrying of
wagons and cars and human beings by this
metropolis. Yet that grated opening has
seldom visitor, though there lies within
few feet of it the dust of a man whose pro
found wisdom and humanity moved the
whole civilized world
Not three blocks away stands great i'll
stitution bearing his name-an institution
fostering all that is scientific and that lives
to learn the hidden things Of natures laws;
that fosters and encourages the genius of
men and teaches industry and the value of
solid learning. Less distant in the opposite
direction lies great public square, one of
those beneficial breathing spaces OF the city's
pentup masses, bearing name. BY its
side there runs long, wide street bearing
his name. And all over the city there are
mills and printing shops and factories and
fOunderies bearing his name, while oil over
the State and the country there are towns and
townships and counties also bearing his
name. Yet there lie his bones down in the
heart of this big city, with arteries throb-
bling with the work and pleasures Of men,
beneath thin stone slab, which grows
greener and thinner year by year, obscmed
by the lightest SHOWS of winter, the earliest
grasses Of summer and the first fall of
autumn leaves. A singular end of a marvel
Gus man!
looked through the bars. With much
craning of my neck and much pressing of
my face against the bars | made out this
simple, fast-fading inscription in the thin
marble slab:
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-04-24
NEWMAN IN HOT WATER.
The Great Eulogist Disparages Dr.
Huntley's Work, but the Ladies
Won't Have It.

The Great Eulogist Disparages DR..
Huntley's Work, but the Ladies
Won't Have 1t.
From Washington Letter to the Baltimore
american.
The Rev. J. p. Newman has stirred up
the wrath of portion OF his congregation,
and they are now in open rebellion against
him. Under the pastorate of his prede-
cessor, Rev. DR.. Huutley, there was formed
among the members of the church social or
ganization called "The Witmore Club, Z"
which has grown until it now numbers be-
tween 300 and 400 members This club has
met with bitter opposition from DR.. New
man ever since he has had charge of the
Metropolitan church, and the members of
the club say that his sole ground of opposi-
ton grows ont of the fact that il was started
by DR.. Huntley They say that he has fol-
lowed up every net of the former pastor
with the most persistent enmity, aud has
sought to uproot and change everything
that has been done by him. At stated pc
RODS the club would have an entertainments,
the proceeds Of which would be devoted 10
Sunday school, library and other church OBJ
iects, and every second Wednesday n $50
ciaih would be given. DR.. Newman, in Civ
ing out a notice OF the monthly meeting of
the club the first Sunday that he filed the
pulpit. took occasion 70 chde his flock for
having such an organization, and said that
he hoped II would he the last time he would
have 30 use the word club i'm connection
with the church The club very easily com
ped with his wishes by dropping the word
club at their following meeting, ana il
WINS hencefoth tO be known simply ns "The
Nitmore. Dr. Newman then made another
move by announcing that on the second
wednesday IN every mOuth--the very day
on witch the club socinls were held-he
would hold series Of church 5ociah Tie
club met again and made flank movement
on The doctor by changing thar socinls ~
the third wednesday soon Afterwards the
members ~ the club met Dr. Newman 10
~ request and boz told ihem again that he
dld moi approve ~ their organization. ana
wanted tIeu Odislnu1 .tand loinn lyoeiim
which Dee aie about ~ pIt into operation.
tbs wis considered mono ~ hIH lsnrH.
nhi pt H H.nllsI unanimous Ypt. u Hus d..
oidul not t1 dlsDund aifHuflur. frf gu4l
dn'br p1if i wife out 49, labor amuus fla
la1y n"nIbTa n uiD Uiu1Hnl I,s.nIu them
irHn A.rI alr.s'd uhya h.I llIr fbs mau.
iHtn % Nin unsa Ilili0 persuasion. they
N9Ila npi IH ral4mal Dr NeWnlanfIsi
fpf niI H H1fIsH Ind drew uU HHf.Hs
hfhInf II" NIfnnfr nhrl al HIl d..
lt'' mHfn. M tIH rlurh uuafas
lbaH rlH.H Ieitd thai 49, rub. Wild
lgetni'll Wls g psn ~ t.e cbglel. VA
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-04-24
GYPSY BOSSES THE HERD.
Elephants Believe in Women's Rights
A Chat with Elephant Bill.


From the Nel0 York World.
The big show over and thousands of rest
less feet shuffled noislly over the concrete
pavement in the long walk that leads through
the menagerie. A man with city map in
his hand would know he was on the South
side of Madison Square Garden, but to all
appearances the throng of people and ami
mails was i'll some vast stone-hoored oasis In
an African desert, where they had midnight
receptions, at which men and beasts chatted
with one another, under the dazzle and sput-
teriug OF electric lights. The shining black
sea lions cried "Yawp! Yawp! Yawp" in a
beseechmg way, and poked their black noses
and spiky whiSkers close to the bars OF their
cage, as if they expected to see their visitors
take fish out of their pockets and stand
treat. The crowd paid no heed to them.
Neither did they waste time watching the
giant polar bear in his never-endlng effort
TO tie knot in his long white neck. The
lions and tigers blinked lazily and with much
dignity received what little homage fell to
them.
When the pushing, shuffling crowd got to
the middle Of the long walk they halted.
The elephants stood before them, twentysix
giants in a swaying row, and that was what
the thousands came to see. Each great gray
beast leaned as far forward as he could, and
held out his trunks as eagerly as ever a
boodler thrust his hand to Billy Moloney.
They wanted candy: AL were tethered by
a chain on the left hind leg to the stone wall
or they would have joined their visitors in
the promenade, and just as likely as not
trod on a corn here and there. Big Fritz,
twenty-six years old, with hide like oak
bark on his massive frame, came in for much
attention. William Newman, commonly
called Elephant Bill' because of his famil-
iarity with the tricky pachyderTms, stood
near by to keep the big fellows in order.
''Just watch Fritz a WHILE" he said, land
you'll see fun"
A Brooklyn citizen, with his wife and
three small citizens, were in the front rank
beside the rope which walls off humanity
from elephants. They simply gazed their
fill and never offered to treat Fritz flour
ished his trunk and pointed the end of it
straight over their shoulders. They looked
and saw this sign:
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-04-24

with an eve single to the procurement Of
wool, they removed the blocks. This let
the cars 20, and away they went down the
grade toward the river At the Washington
street crossing two of the cars jumped
the track and there was a crash. One Of
the cars that got OFF the track was q fat car
loaded with lumber: the other w0s freight
box. The former was not much dam
aged, but the latter was so badly shaken up
that it will have TO go TO the shop for re-
pairs. Policeman Kemp caught the two
small boys whose theft led to such mis-
chief, and carried them to the guard house.
Late in the afternoon their mothers called
for them and had them released to them
upon condition that each boy was to receive
a good thrashing then and there
The life of pilot is often mixed with ex-
element, rs was proven few days ago in
the experience Of Capt. Elias Pearson and
others of the pilot boat Telegram, of Bruins
wick. Whilst about ten miles from St
Simon's Light, out at sea, Capt. Peerson dis
covered a porpoise about eight feet long
running along by the side of his boat as they
naturally do. The Captain took his har-
pooh and buried it into him, and then he
and Martin, the cook, seized the line and en-
deavored to check the monsters
onward course. The harder they
pulled the faster he ran, and
the hotter the rope got in passing through
their fingers. They were finally jerked fat
on the deck, but not until the rope had
burned the Captains hands very badly.
to the boat something had to give way when
the whole of it was played out, and as the
boat was too heavy and the rope and har-
pOOn too strong to break the fish's flesh had
to pay the penalty, which it did. Capt.
Persons hands are still bound up.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-04-24
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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-04-24
ELEPHANTS LIKE PEANUTS.

The whole family took the gentle hint
and presently they stood in row pelting
peanuts at Fritz's open mouth. They were
not good shots. and, after little time, Fritz
gently, yet nimbly, snatched the bag, pea
nuts and all, from the smallest boy with his
lissome trunk. He threw the whole thing
into his mouth Thereupon all threw down
the peanuts in bulk as a tribute to Fritz's
greatness
Mr. Newman pointed out the big difference
between Indian and African elephants.
THE Africans are the most timid, he said.
"and the hardest to train The Indian and
Ceylonese are handsomer beasts and learn
tricks much quicllert han Africans. Alice,
Jumbo's widow, is the only African
we have. Which is our handsomest elephant
Mandarin, by long odds. Look at him.
The reporter looked. Mandarin, although
only 80 years old, is about as large as eighty
John L. Sulllvans rolled into one. He has a
fine black bang, which grows down the
middle of his forehead. Also his ears and
head are spotted with pinkish white patches
like the color of the sacred elephant. The
doctors say it's an unnatural COLOR said
Mr.. Newman, "but it isn't dangerous to
touch His skin is like velvet Is he danger
Gus to handle! Oh, no; not when I'm around.
He did pick up Prof. Doremus once and slam
him through a wall, but he quit as soon as
we shouted at him"
(which of the herd is boss ~ asked the
reporter.
Gypsy, by a large majority. Once in a
while, late at night, she whales Fritz with
her trunk like the dickens and butts him
with her heavy head. Does he resent it 2
Not bit, He and all male elephants be-
lieve in women's rights.
by the way, Tom Thumb over yonder,
the little trick elephant, is a wonder Her
case is the only one on record where an
elephants broken leg has been set Success
fully. Jumbo lost his life trying TO save her
Do you know that Scott, Jumbos keeper, is
still with the show! Nothing can induce
him to go away. lie says he will stay by
Jmnbos bones as long rs he lives"
The crowd was thinning out now. One by
one the electric lights stopped suffering
and the shadows spread thickly through the
long room Gray-coated men took down
the ropes that had kept the crowd at IA safe
distance,
Then Tom Thumb was unhobbled She
trOtied around from one giant to another
chatting with funny little squeak. and wnv-
ings Of her trunk. They all seemed glad TO
talk 30 her and hear the budget of gossip she
had r. spread. Only two lights we're left
glowing now They were mere specks in
the darkness. and out Of the vast bulk of
great darl, fjrms you could make ont only
one or two noi.elcsdy weaving strange
figure with their trunks.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-04-24

never done anything for the church, and ap-
parently did not intend to do anything; that
there was nothing of a religious nature in its
meetings, and that therefore it should not be
countenanced longer by the church; and, IN
general terms, that it was a thoroughly
worthless organization, whose tendency was
TO be bad, and recommending that 1t should
be required to disband or retire from the
church.
The trustees sustained him and reported
against the club The next day Dr. New
man again asked the ladies of the club to
disband, whereupon one of them asked him
i'll effect what he was going TO do about 1t II
they didn't. The doctor, with that look OF
exaltation which only he himself knows how
to assume replied that the church would see
about that. Last Tuesday evening meet
ing of the club was called, and it was unani-
mously decided to leave the CHURCH. A
change in the constitution was then made
and it became an entirely secular organlza-
ton, with no church connection. A hall
was promptly rendered by a friend for their
meetings, and SO the doctor and his pet
scheme for a lyceum are apparently lett.
All the members who sang in the choir have
been dismissed and notified that hereafter a
quarter choir would take care of the sing
ing. Judge Smell, of the Washington Police
Court, who is a prominent member OF the
church, has ranged himself alongside of the
boys and girls of the club. One of DR.. New
mans inconsistencies has been that, while
he strenuously opposed an entertainment
which the club proposed to have for the
purpose of paying off church debt, on the
ground that it would be desecration of the
church he announced a series Of lectures
about his travels to be delivered in the
church, the tickets to be SOC EACH He
again surprised his young members by al
lowing the use of the church to be used by
the woman suffragistS for their annual con-
vention, since the leaders of that political
body are most of them pronounced free
thinkers. Dr. Newman is away, and when
he returns some new developments may be
ayDactad
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-04-24

before the citizens became aware of the
selection or could enter their protest. it
was also rumored that the Shoemaker
estate had subscribed S., 900 to the fund raised
to reduce the price of the lot and thus
influence the selection of the site, and also
that the services Of Gen. Alexander, Of
Savannah, a citizen of another city, had
been enlisted in the efforts to have that site
selected The citizens besides bong excit-
ed were exceedingly indignant and pro
nounced the selection of the lot in one end
of the city an outrage, and much talk of an
indignation meeting was heard on the
streets
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-04-24

81 "a woll-lnown operator IN WAL street,
who .s generally considered ~ cup b. muH. %
Hone lt may have been quite naturai thnt
"a cluutrymnn who read tha p1poiu recently
eillol nt h's onirl nnl ashod ior psohaeo
~ Dr hagst fafnrb hmady a. diaaDy.
oad 'la mistake, 300 Dr. made nO mistake Al
ihr HfIrlr nailaf fDr Ihh remedy whom
applied HlfI Dr lrrrNa hneI lauche.H
HIl tHrly 900 Wpld|I eradicate ~. most
"a fffnfHiei onHH m eHfafIh, aInI sII in
uii slHalui aul pa1s $500 FagiaI aulnlsgfs
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a peculiar ease is down for hearing at the
Escott Division Court, Canada The de
PENDANT offered a married Indy 500 b. in
ducc her sister 30 marry him. The match
was amoahly arranged by the sister aud
they were duly married and now the sister
ani husband refuse ~ pay the stipulated
money Hence suit ~ recover the amount
agreed upon
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GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

A Traveller Taken in Charge at Way
cross on Account of Insanity-A Way
cross Negress Who Did Not Know
Her Husbands Name - E Man Sleeps
All Night With Snake.